Corzine supported Doria then

Note to readers: On Jan. 28, 2009 I wrote the following about DCA Commissioner Joe Doria. His behavior didn’t seem to bother Corzine then. It was only after the FBI came to Doria’s house and office last week during Corzine’s election campaign that Corzine became concerned.

Zebulon Pike at The SaveJersey.com blog took time to listen to what career public trough swiller and DCA commissioner Joe Doria told the Community and Urban Affairs Committee Monday and it was revealing, if not surprising. Doria was belittling the state’s mayors’ concerns over the problems moving ahead with the state’s affordable housing demands will cause in this awful economic climate.

“As a mayor I used to cry wolf and I understand the role sometimes in crying wolf.”

“Sometimes you have to grandstand … I’ve done it many times.”

And yet, in a state with more than 8 million, Corzine chose him to head DCA. How can anyone take anything this guy says seriously? When Doria was Assembly speaker he issued members gold badges — crafted by a friend of Doria — and leather carrying cases. Doria thought he and his fellow “public servants” deserved special treatment. That made him the poster for pigs in the trough. Only when 101.5’s Jim Gearhart made an issue of it did Doria repay the state. (The whole story of that sorry episode can be found on page 127 of The Soprano State, new paperback edition.)

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Are you surprised? Not only did Corzine support Doria then but don’t ever forget that he REAPPOINTED Jeanne “The BPU Queen” Fox/DiMicco to a second 6 year term even after what the BPU whistle blower revealed about her “Gross Mismanagement, Patronage, cronyism, Secret Bank Account, World wide Travel etc. etc. etc. All of Fox’s criminal activities were fully documented by a scathing Treasury Audit Report as well as the court record during the month long trial paid ($2.7 MILLION and Rising) by taxpayers to Corzine’s Politically connected lawyer friends. Milgram and prior AG’s kept the audit report secret from the public for 19 months before releasing the report about Queen Jeanne. You can bet that Jon Boy won’t throw Fox under the bus because her hubby DiMicco knows more dirt about Corzine than he even knows about himself……..”The Culture of Corruption” is doing quite well in the halls of New Jersey government!!!!! Remember in NOVEMBER.

Last year, there was a proposal to provide housing for civil servants (i.e. teachers, police, etc.) — and to buy up foreclosed properties, rehabilitate them and make them affordable units.

I looked up some of the members of that study committee — the ones I could find were lawyers and members of “agencies” (probably community organizers!) and companies that specialize in rehabilitating housing — that is, making $$ off of COAH.

AND my big question: if that were to occur, who would subsidize the new homeowners’ property taxes in the foreclosed/rehabbed properties?

COAH is one prime example of NJ Dems legislating from the bench, then soaking taxpayers. (If everyone was so concerned about affordable housing, they’d NEVER approve builders’ remedy payments! What a joke.)

Another is NJ’s funding of public education.

If we cleaned up these 2 areas, our financial future would look a LOT brighter!!

9:01 Before Madoff was busted……..his $19M “family foundation” donated to this
so-called “charity” that was money laundering and trafficking in body parts.
Read on.

7/26/09, NY POST, By JAMES FANELLI

‘ORGAN-SELLING’ RABBI’S $$ LINK TO MADOFF The alleged organ-selling rabbi busted as part of a wide-ranging corruption probe headed a Brooklyn charity that received dirty donations from yet another disgrace — Bernard Madoff. Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, 58, ran the Brooklyn branch of Kav Lachayim, a volunteer group that purports to help sickly children.

Before Madoff was busted as one of the biggest scammers in history, his $19M family foundation donated tens of thousands over several years to the charitable group, records show.

Rosenbaum was arrested last week as part of a massive FBI sting after allegedly being caught on tape offering to sell a kidney for $160,000. “I am what you call a matchmaker,” Rosenbaum told an FBI informant trying to broker a deal. Rosenbaum said he had brokered “quite a lot” of illegal organ deals, according to a criminal complaint.

The charity’s sister organization in Israel also has ties to the selling of organs. That group was partially run by a retired banker, Yechiel Landman, who helped sick Israelis find organ donors in the Philippines, according to reports.

An executive of one of China’s largest private steel companies has been beaten to death by workers angry at the threat to their jobs from a takeover of their state-owned firm, according to a Hong Kong rights group.
The violent riot in north-east China late last week involved up to 30,000 workers, a reminder of the ongoing sensitivity about lay-offs from state firms in industries targeted for consolidation
why would a country take matters into there own hands ,but we Americans are happ to let corrupt people ruin our lives ,as long as we can watch a reality show ? …wake up !

Milgram, Corzine and a 1000 state lawyers can’t even find their navels, much less official corruption and lawbreaking

Where were they when this corruption was going on? And why is child predator Cohen still not in jail? Why is BPU’s secret accounts not being investigated? Why isn’t the missing SCC $8B and the hidden $17.5B stimulus not being investigated? Why isn’t the dwindling pension fund being investigated? What about COAH? And Abbott funding abuses?

Alert the FBI that numerous crimes in NJ are being ignored by the NJ Dept of Justice. Dereliction of duty….violaiton of oath of office. Demand that the FBI investigate Corzine, Milgram, and the NJ Dept of Justice now.

Doria is a real scum bag. He hasn’t been charged with anything but according to the SL he’s already been in touch with PERS regarding his pension! This dirtbag wants to make sure that his reward for life long “public service” doesn’t go up in smoke.

I can’t help but notice the total lack of critisism eminating from Trenton, Could it be that the whole bunch of thieves are in their bunkers until this latest sweep quiets down?

I was really hoping that they’d get someone like Codey, Sweeney, or Lesniak this time around. Oh wekk there’s always tomprrow!

The infamous 2007 Body Parts Scandal involved many NJ funeral homes. Sen Codey heads the National and State Association of Funeral Directors and he sponsored the Organ Donor Decisions Bill……that came out right after the 2007 Body Broker business was busted open.

Now we have the 2009 New Jesey-Brooklyn body-snatchers connection. Will Sen Dick Codey’s name surface?

Mmmmmmmm…….think of the numerous lucrative organ market scams popping up once health records are nationalized under Obamacare. Now that the economy is totally destroyed, carving up dead bodies and selling organs and body parts will have enormous appeal as a gov’t money-maker.

Come November, hopefully the taxpayers of NJ will drop Corzine like a hot brick too.

Chris Christie, here is more fodder for your ads…..hello…..

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